This is an analysis of the poem The Life Of Lincoln West that begins with:
Ugliest little boy
that everyone ever saw. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb cdbecfgXabdbhbXh ebgiij khillcbmn bdfihmbe mhloo ihXiiaicXfacdoobadjfolc bknaiphbalcl qhkki nb fhadqhc hicbcrlcrhdl kcnl khpXnjid gbfcbiiLacs scsaqeLXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,16,6,9,8,5,23,12,5,2,7,12,4,8,11,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 1101101 1011011 10001001010 10110011000 1110001001 10011110 1100101010 1001010100 0001010110 111101001110100 11100101 111011011 1011010010 101011111 011001001 11010011 101001110 0110011 0101110101 01011010111 1101010111 11011010 111111 1111 1010101 1001011101 01011101 10101010 01010010 010010011 10101111 1010111 11111010 1010011001 1101010 100101010 010000101010 10110 110011010 11111111 11010010011 1010101011 1111001010 110101010 1010011010 0101010 01010101 011110101 1100111100 01011011010 11100 1 100110011 010101100 1111101100 110010011110 1111011 1100110101 01011010 111111110 110110100 110011010 100111111 1011010110 111111101 1010001010 110111100 111100010 0 110010101 0101101 111101 1100010011 0110111 01011 111011 1101001111 1101111 10011010 011010001 101 111110101 0101101 1111 1001111 1001 1111010 101100011 011100010 10010111 11010111 1101110 111101101 010110100 0111 11111110 0110001110 001001 100101110 10000101101 0101 11011010 0111001 01000111 101010111101 011110 11 110111 110101001 101001 1 0100111011 101011 1000111 11010110 11001010 1011101 100101010010101000 1010 1011111001 111101 10 1101111 01011111 11011110 1110101101 011 11111 1111 111101 111111 11 11 1011 10111101 1011 011 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 139
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; baby, of, and, gave, his, she, all, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, his, he, their are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines no, much are repeated).
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